Regal-Zonophone Records
Regal-Zonophone Records was a British record label that was founded in 1932 through the merger of the Regal Records and Zonophone Records labels .
history
founding
In 1932, Regal and Zonophone followed their parent companies, the Columbia Graphophone Company and the Gramophone Company , which had merged to form EMI . As with self-employment, a large part of the published material came from the US labels Columbia Records , Okeh Records and Victor Records as well as the American Record Corporation . Regal-Zonophone released records by American old-time musicians such as Cliff Carlisle , Gid Tanner and his Skillet Lickers and Roy Harvey ; but jazz and pop were also released on the label. Domestic artists such as Gracie Fields and George Formby have also been released.
1950s
In the 1950s, the Australian division of Regal-Zonophone played a crucial role in the development of country music in Australia. With Slim Dusty , Smoky Dawson , Reg Lindsay and Chad Morgan , hit singles have been released again and again. Slim Dusty's A Pub with No Beer from 1957 actually became the most successful single to be released in Australian history.
More history and present
In the 1960s and 1970s, artists from Regal-Zonophone were regularly featured in the charts. Some of these musicians were The Move , Joe Cocker , T. Rex and Procol Harum . In the following decade, however, Regal-Zonophone lost many of its musicians and EMI dropped the label.
In the 1990s, EMI revived Regal-Zonophone as a re-release label, but the label no longer exists in this form today. The group was split back into Regal and Zonophone Records, which operate independently of each other.